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Quiz Night in aid of restoration of the Wilts & Berks Canal. Tea, Coffee and cakes available. Full licensed Bar. Price: £15 / team (up to 4 people) To enter email: quiz@wbct.org.uk 7:00 for 7:30 pm start Neeld Hall, High Streeet,, Chippenham.   Everyone welcome   For further trust information see www.wbct.org.uk   more

CANCELLED   CANCELLED   CANCELLED   Unfortunately due to the Neeld Hall closing until June 15th our April quiz has been cancelled more

The 29th Chippenham Beer Festival will take place on 24th and 25th April 2020 at the Olympiad Sports Centre, SN15 3PA Tickets include free commemorative glass and £3 of drinks vouchers CAMRA members get extra £2 worth of beer vouchers Fri 24th April       5:30pm- 11pm   £10 Sat 25th April      11am – 4pm      ...more

Are your family holiday snaps fading? Have pests nibbled the only image of your Victorian great-grandmother? Are you struggling to store those glass lantern slide photographs you inherited? Book in to our workshop and join archive conservator Sophie Coles to learn about the best way to look after your photographs followed ...more

Workhouses, prisons and asylums could be very grim places – they conjure up images of Oliver Twist, hard labour and ice baths. They could also be very un-Dickensian: some workhouses even gave tobacco to their inmates or paid for the men to be shaved by a barber. The records of these institutions can give you an invaluable ...more

VE Day and the aftermath of the Second World War marked the beginning of a huge period of change across the country, from ‘slum’ clearances and ambitious building programmes to the beginnings of the permissive society and sweeping social change. This talk will introduce you to how these issues affected Wiltshire and ...more